I am a Cybersecurity Researcher in the Global Security Operations of Amadeus IT Group. My domains of interest and expertise are Network and Application Security.

Prior to this position, I was a Ph.D. researcher in Digital Security enrolled at the Sorbonne Université. I worked on my research project in the Digital Security Department of EURECOM and Amadeus IT Group, under the supervision of Prof. Marc Dacier (KAUST) and Dr. Olivier Thonnard (Amadeus IT Group). I officially defended my Ph.D. thesis, titled “Detecting and Mitigating the New Generation of Scraping Bots”, in November 2023. In the spring of 2022 and 2023, I was a visiting researcher at the Resilient Computing and Cybersecurity Center (RC3), Saudi Arabia.

I am currently investigating new directions to identify server-side the usage Residential IP Proxies and CAPTCHA Farms. I am always more than happy to discuss our work, if you have any feedback please do not hesitate to contact me at elisa.chiapponi@amadeus.com :)

Outside of work, I am passionate about cooking, volunteering (Global Shapers Nice, Helping Hands), hiking and buldering. I also love traveling, listening to true-crime podcasts and dancing Balfolk.